Successful Students
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7. Understand that actions
affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their
feelings and emotions which in turn can affect learning. If you act a certain
way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience
those feelings. Act like you’re bored, and you’ll become bored. Act like you’re
disinterested, and you’ll become disinterested. So the next time have trouble
concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person: lean forward,
place your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with the professor, nod
occasionally, take notes, and ask questions. Not only will you benefit from your
actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and
enthusiastic.
8. Talk about what they’re
learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they can
put it into words. Talking about something, with friends or classmates, is not
only good for checking whether or not you know something, it’s a proven
learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for
moving knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. You really don’t “know”
material until you can put it into words. So, readings, etc. with friends,
recite to a chair, organize an oral study group, pretend you’re teaching your
peers. “Talk-learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that result in
more learning.
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